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<p><a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120502PD216.html">Enthusiasts were offered a bit of hope this morning with news from DigiTimes</a> that more capacity at TSMC will be available for AMD and NVIDIA&nbsp;which would mean more dies being made and hopefully a larger supply of GPUs.&nbsp; Since TSMC seems to have finished <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2172329/tsmc-28nm-31ghz-cortex-a9-chip">playing with their Cortex A9 process</a>, there is a good possibility that the GTX680 and perhaps even the GTX690 will become common enough that the great unwashed actually have a chance to purchase one.&nbsp; We can also hope that it will give NVIDIA&nbsp;a chance to build up stocks of the GTX670 and 610 which are due out at the end of the month and June, respectively.&nbsp; Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/There-plenty-blame-go-around-when-you-are-talking-about-GTX-680">if a certain site is correct</a> that may not be the case as NVIDIA&nbsp;will be redoing their mask and not be able to take advantage of the extra capacity TSMC could make available for them.&nbsp; Perhaps if this scenario is true AMD&nbsp;will be able to leverage TSMC&nbsp;to flood the market with Southern Island GPUs and hope to win the availability war as the performance crown is firmly on NVIDIA's head in this generation of GPUs.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&quot;AMD and Nvidia, impacted by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) fully-booked capacity, had rather weak shipment performance in the first quarter; however, as more capacity will be gradually released by TSMC, shortages of 28nm graphics cards are expected to improve in late May, according to sources from graphics card makers.&quot;</p>
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<p>Here is some more Tech News from around the web:</p>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/03/1412224/gimp-28-finally-released">Gimp 2.8 Finally Released @ Slashdot</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/571815-the-2012-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you">The 2012 Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You @ Linux.com</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2172367/microsoft-ditch-window-live-brand-ahead-windows-launch">Microsoft will ditch Window Live brand ahead of Windows 8 launch @ The Inquirer</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120503PD206.html">RIM unveils BlackBerry 10 platform @ DigiTimes</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2172387/amd-outs-roadrunner-mainboard-compute">AMD outs Roadrunner mainboard for Open Compute @ The Inquirer</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.techspot.com/guides/511-tech-fail/">Biggest Tech Failures of The Last 10+ Year @ Techspot</a></li>
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